15 Feb 2009 at 20:58 #1 Ben M Ben M Permabanned Joined 17 Nov 2007 Posts 10,278 Location Chester/ Bristol uni Which would give the better performance for an OS and programmes drive two 640gb f1s in RAID 1 or four 320gb f1s in RAID 10 Using an onboard RAID controller on an asus p45 mobo. I'm assuming that the four drives would be faster Last edited: 15 Feb 2009
Which would give the better performance for an OS and programmes drive two 640gb f1s in RAID 1 or four 320gb f1s in RAID 10 Using an onboard RAID controller on an asus p45 mobo. I'm assuming that the four drives would be faster
16 Feb 2009 at 12:39 #4 Ben M Ben M Permabanned OP Joined 17 Nov 2007 Posts 10,278 Location Chester/ Bristol uni Okay, cheers guys
16 Feb 2009 at 13:11 #6 Ben M Ben M Permabanned OP Joined 17 Nov 2007 Posts 10,278 Location Chester/ Bristol uni domthecondom said: Raid 1+0?? ?you can do that ? Click to expand... yeah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_10_.28RAID_1.2B0.29
domthecondom said: Raid 1+0?? ?you can do that ? Click to expand... yeah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_10_.28RAID_1.2B0.29
17 Feb 2009 at 14:57 #18 Ben M Ben M Permabanned OP Joined 17 Nov 2007 Posts 10,278 Location Chester/ Bristol uni JonJ678 said: worth a look, raid 10 kills it on performance, but raid 5 only costs the capacity of one drive rather than half the capacity of the array Click to expand... I was thinking about 5, but was told that it isn't too great when using a mobo's built in RAID controller, because it struggles to handle it.
JonJ678 said: worth a look, raid 10 kills it on performance, but raid 5 only costs the capacity of one drive rather than half the capacity of the array Click to expand... I was thinking about 5, but was told that it isn't too great when using a mobo's built in RAID controller, because it struggles to handle it.
